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Expand your search using AWS native services to identify, comprehend and securely store documents.

The document debacle Companies continue to fight the battle of the age-old problem: paper documents. Adapting to document modernization to expand the ability to search, catalog and protect HIPAA\PII data is paramount. In this article, we will cover how you can integrate a server-less pipeline within AWS to tackle the document debacle!

AWS re:Invent 2020 Andy Jassy Keynote annoucements!

AWS re:Invent 2020 - Andy Jassy Keynote Here’s a recap of what was announced in Andy Jassy’s 2020 AWS re:Invent Keynote; a lot of very exciting announcements to unpack here!

AWS Certified Security: Specialty overview

AWS Certified Security: Specialty Overview The AWS Certified Security: Specialty is geared towards individuals who focus primarily on security within AWS. I found that as a solutions architect, it is extremely important to have security at the forefront of my mind while building. Building an environment secure initially reduces the risk of failing compliance and potential exploitation at production launch.

Amazon EMR, ALB & Me.

Amazon EMR, ALB & Me. Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto. To ensure traffic to EMR is secured using Transport Layer Security, an AWS Application Load Balancer is required.

AWS Community Builders

AWS Community Builders In October 2020, I was accepted to be a member of the 2021 AWS Community Builders program. I’m honored (and very excited) to be apart of this new program! As you’ve seen thus far, I love to blog about AWS and newly released features and deployments.

Free course: Deploying HashiCorp Vault with AWS Secrets Engine

Deploying HashiCorp Vault with AWS Secrets Engine I am providing my course, Deploying HashiCorp Vault with AWS Secrets Engine for no charge - available on YouTube. I’ll keep this page updated with additional material and update the videos on YouTube as needed.

Deploying the AWS-ServiceBroker prerequisites using Terraform

aws-servicebroker-tf I was unable to find a Terraform version of the CloudFormation stack that deploys the prerequisites for AWS-ServiceBroker. I’ve since created this in Terraform, along with improving upon some of the initial concepts adapted in the CloudFormation template.

Reduce AWS costs while maintaining stable operations using this one weird trick!

aws-auto-cleanup Functional Requirements Reduce operational run-time of resources used within an AWS account for testing\development Reduce cost due to deployed resources Ability to whitelist AWS resources that need to be retained Operating Cost < $2.00/mo for the following:

HashiCorp Terraform AWS Provider v3.4.0 now supports aws_emr_managed_scaling_policy

HashiCorp Terraform AWS-Provider Issue #13952 was highly sought after for a recent implementation of EMR v5.30.0. The requirements included the need for the utilization of AWS Auto Scaling for EMR. We sought out the AWS EMR Managed Scaling feature, but were sad to see that support for that attribute was not in the AWS provider yet.

Deployment of HashiCorp Vault using Terraform

aws-vault Terraform deployment of HashiCorp Vault. This is a work in progress write-up and will change.